NEWS
August 08, 2017
GoLocal Providence: Writer/Director Jennifer Potts Talks Screenplay Award & Commitment to Women in Film
On her latest film project, writer/director/producer Jennifer Potts made a special commitment to her community; to use at least 50% women on her crew, and 80% of her cast and crew from the New England area.
July 28, 2017
Worcester Telegram & Gazette: Local cast, director film ‘The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop’ in Fitchburg
FITCHBURG — Seven-year-old Cecily Blinkstop lives in a world with no music, no color, no laughter and no love after the death of her baby sister. But in Jennifer Potts’ family-drama short film “The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop,” a magical imaginary friend will show up and join Cecily on a quest to save her family from the grief that is destroying it.
July 18, 2017
Sentinel & Enterprise: Fitchburg woman shooting short movie, pushes for women in film
FITCHBURG -- Independent filmmaker Jennifer Potts doesn't just want to tell a story through her new short film, which started shooting at her Fitchburg home this weekend. She wants to provide opportunities to women who work in film, both in front of the camera and behind it.
April 17, 2017
Newsletter: Our Campaign Has Launched! Let's get this movie funded.
Check out our campaign page today! We are raising $25,000, the total cost of production, in just 45 days. This is an 80% or nothing campaign: if we do not raise at least 80% of our goal, the film does not get made.
April 14, 2017
Nashoba Valley Voice: Shirley actor will be featured in film to be shot by Fitchburg director
The film is set to shoot in Fitchburg from July 14 through 18. Interior shots of the film will take place inside Potts' old Victorian farmhouse while the exteriors are being shot at a small farm in Fitchburg. The short film is a "proof-of-concept" for a longer film Potts wrote.
April 07, 2017
Reporter (Waterboro, ME): Local Child Actors Cast in Upcoming Film
Massachusetts-based independent filmmaker Jennifer Potts announces that eight-year-old Colbi Gannett of Waterboro, will be playing the lead role of Cecily Blinkstop in Potts’ short film, The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop. Colbi’s brother, six-year-old Emmett Gannett, also from Waterboro, will play the role of Cecily’s younger brother, Barney.
March 30, 2017
The Journal Tribune (Biddeford, ME): Waterboro Children to Perform in Film
Colbi Gannett, 8, and her brother, Emmett Gannett, 6, of Waterboro, will be acting in a a short film called 'The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop,' to be filmed in Massachusetts this summer. Colbi plays Cecily, the lead character, while Emmett plays her brother, Barney.
March 29, 2017
The Enterprise (Brockton, MA): Easton girl going from first grade to film star
A local little girl will make a big acting debut this summer in an independent film, The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop. Molly McCarthy, a first grader at Moreau Hall Elementary School, was cast last week in the New England-focused film written, directed, and co-produced by Fitchburg resident Jennifer Potts.
March 28, 2017
GoLocalProvidence.com: Rhode Island’s Ava Gaudet Talks Broadway, Hollywood & New Film
After spending the last ten years in Los Angeles and New York, actress Ava Gaudet says she is thrilled to be back home in Rhode Island and looks forward to her next project, The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop.
March 20, 2017
CapeCodToday.com: South Yarmouth child actress cast in upcoming film
Massachusetts-based independent filmmaker Jennifer Potts announces that 13-year-old Patricia Fitzgerald of South Yarmouth, Mass., will be playing the role of Kim Blinkstop, Cecily Blinkstop’s older sister, in Potts’ short film, The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop, scheduled to film in Central Massachusetts in July 2017.
October 31, 2016
Cecily Blinkstop Takes New England Spotlight Grand Prize in the 2016 Rhode Island International Film Festival's Screenplay Competition!
The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop script took the Grand Prize in the New England Spotlight section of Rhode Island International Film Festival's 2016 Screenplay Competition.
June 01, 2016
Composer, Sergio Torres-Letelier and Cecily in the Chilean News!
Sergio Torres Letelier, curso sus estudios medios en la Scuola Italiana Alcide de Gasperi, serenense, donde reside su madre, la destacada y reconocida médico Cirujano Infantil Alejandra Letelier, quien ejerce en el Hospital Regional “San Juan de Dios” de La Serena.
April 01, 2016
Massachusetts-based independent filmmaker Jennifer Potts announces her new feature film project: The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop.